8vo (212 x 160 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations in text. (Some very light spotting.) Original publisher's sheep, red and black morocco spine labels (slight wear, joints starting). Provenance: J.H. Ewalt (gift inscription, 1882). 
 
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the author’s first historical novel. Mixed state: BAL’s first state printing, with Franklin Press imprint on copyright, but this copy with text on p.124 in corrected state, line 1 reading “canopy of state” as in captioned illustration (instead of “canopy of estate” in earlier state). BAL 3402; Johnson, pp. 39-41.